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John Chalcraft is the Howard Zinn of Middle East studies ... [This book] is essential for understanding how the region came to be so fraught in our own era. Juan Cole, University of Michigan Unparalleled in both its ambitions and its achievements, this book provides ... a brilliant synthetic reinterpretation of the role of popular politics ... John Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science This book makes an outstanding contribution to the study of the recent history and politics of the Middle East. Charles Tripp, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London In its comparative and theoretical approach, this work is unmatched. Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona [This] insightful book shows how mass mobilization helped to shape state-formation and nation-building in the region over the past two centuries, creating the backdrop ... for today's tumultuous conflicts. Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill John Chalcraft has written a masterpiece of bottom-up analysis and interpretation over two centuries of Middle Eastern longing, struggle, and change. Michael Provence, University of California, San Diego

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John Chalcraft is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include The Invisible Cage: Syrian Workers in Lebanon (2009) and Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony (co-edited with Yaseen Noorani, 2007).

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